First-year medical lectures, recorded as they happened.
Audio captured straight from first-year medical school lecture halls, covering thyroid and parathyroid hormones, adrenal glands, calcium regulation, and childhood nutritional disorders. Clicker polls open most sessions, and wrong answers get worked through on the spot before the material moves on.
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Medical School Audio is a lecture-hall recording, not a produced podcast. The room noise stays in. So do the microphone checks, the requests to settle down, and the moments where a lecturer asks whether the class can hear. What remains is the teaching itself, and there is a lot of it across more than four hundred entries. The material sits mostly in endocrine and reproductive physiology, with nutrition threaded through the same module. One session covers nutritional disorders across childhood and adolescence, from one year to nineteen. It compares marasmus to starvation, then turns to edematous malnutrition and how to assess it by palpating the lower limbs for symmetrical swelling. Severity is read by how far the edema climbs, feet to abdomen to neck. Skin peeling, hyperpigmentation, and hyperkeratosis follow, alongside the deficiency findings for calcium and phosphorus. Another lecture works through the parathyroid glands, four of them tucked behind the thyroid, two on each pole, with chief cells doing the secretory work while the oxyphil cell function goes unexplained. The thyroid session detours into public reaction after a radionuclear accident, when shelves of potassium iodide were emptied thousands of miles from the source, and explains the actual physiology underneath that instinct. The adrenal lectures make the case for tapering steroids in small decrements over days, so that suppressed zones can regenerate and messenger RNA regains its exposure to ACTH. Obesity gets treated as endocrinology rather than lifestyle commentary: the adipocyte as a secretory organ, leptin resistance feeding insulin resistance, adiponectin falling as weight rises. Clicker questions structure almost every hour. A poll opens the session, the class response is read out as a percentage, and the tempting wrong choice gets taken apart before the lecture proceeds. Housekeeping survives the edit too, including office hours, reminders about which readings carry points, and good wishes ahead of a Monday exam. The delivery is brisk and repetitive by design, defining terms by contrast, then restating them in simpler language a minute later. Clinical application arrives as illustration rather than anecdote, and the thread snaps back to mechanism quickly. Audio quality varies with the room, and some passages are rough where the recording struggles. For anyone outside a medical program, this is an unusual window into how the material is actually taught. For anyone inside one, it is a second pass at a lecture that went by too fast the first time.
Made for: Medical and health science students working through endocrine, reproductive, and nutrition modules who want lecture material they can revisit while commuting or reviewing. Also suited to anyone curious about how preclinical medicine is actually taught, room noise included.
What sets it apart: Rather than a host explaining medicine to a general audience, these are unedited teaching sessions complete with clicker polls, percentage breakdowns of class answers, and exam housekeeping. The teaching logic stays intact because nothing has been repackaged for listeners outside the room.
Audio for the first year of medical school!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Recorded medical lectures connect physiology, psychiatry, and interviewing skills to exam questions, clinical cases, and disciplined diagnostic reasoning.
Medical School Audio preserves the working texture of medical lectures: clicker questions, corrections, clinical applications, and reminders about what students need to understand for exams.
Thyroid hormones meet clicker votes; you hear the class's answers corrected in real time.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk pediatric nutrition review that separates marasmus, quashoko, and key deficiencies through clear physical signs.
Childhood nutrition is framed as a clinical teaching route from the independence of one year through puberty and on to adulthood at 19. Dr. Charles Ihedioha, from biochemistry, uses malnutrition to show how growth can be disrupted, with marasmus and quashoko set side by side.
A focused endocrine lecture that turns calcium control into a clear review of parathyroid basics and hypocalcemia.
The lecture keeps its focus on calcium, moving from a clicker question about hypothyroidism and pitting edema into the anatomy and physiology of the parathyroid glands.
A brisk diabetes review that keeps nutrition, insulin resistance, and exam points in one lane.
The episode treats nutrition as a point-heavy part of the module before moving into diabetes mellitus and the main nutritional risk factor for type 2 diabetes: obesity.
Thyroid basics, radioactive iodine, and the exam link between prolactin and amenorrhea.
Medical School Audio's thyroid lecture keeps a brisk pace as it moves from anatomy into clicker questions and the main hormone actions. It covers radioactive iodine, potassium iodide as protection, T3 binding in the nucleus, and the conversion of T4 to T3 by 5-prime-D-iodinase,…
A brisk adrenal lecture that keeps circling back until the mechanism sticks.
This episode has the feel of a live classroom, moving from office hours and a clicker question to a quick reset on the luteal phase before settling into the adrenal glands.
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A concise tour of symptom amplification, imaging, and the malingering question.
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A medical school lecturer delivers a comprehensive lecture on calcium regulation, covering how 99% of the body's calcium is stored in bone and how parathyroid hormone (PTH) and vitamin D cooperate to maintain ECF calcium within the narrow 8.6–10 mg/dL range where it is physiologically safe.
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Medical School Audio’s “ER 22” covers thyroid gland anatomy, thyroid hormone synthesis, and the clinical picture of hyperthyroidism and Graves’ disease.
This ER-module lecture covers nutritional aspects of diabetes mellitus, focusing on type 2 diabetes' primary risk factor: obesity, which the WHO has termed "diabesity." The instructor explains insulin resistance mechanically, noting that a daily insulin requirement exceeding 200 units (versus the normal 40-50 units) defines the state, and links it to elevated leptin, reduced adiponectin, and free fatty acids.
Medical School Audio’s "ER 18" centers on adrenal gland anatomy and hormone control, starting with the zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, and zona reticularis.
A medical school lecture on the histology of the female reproductive system, including IMCQ practice questions.
A medical school lecture on the development of the reproductive system, covering the default sex pathway and differentiation.
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